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    Lineker again

    Once again proving he is the most clued in celebrity in the UK, Gary Lineker retweets B'Tselem and gets attacked by Israeli spokespeople and Hasbara scum

    http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ga...dren-890938502

    #2
    This article in the Jewish Chronicle is a particularly unpleasant piece of whataboutery Somehow what Lineker was criticising as inhumane- locking up children in cages- is forgotten compared to retweeting a critic of israel, or sharing Btselem footage.

    They really are scumbags. Happy Hannukah to all.

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      #3
      And to you too, Nef.

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        #4
        Didn't know this about the World Cup draw, either:

        Earlier this month he hosted the draw in Moscow for next year's World Cup in Russia, drawing criticism from human rights campaigners who say the tournament amounts to a lavish public relations exercise for Vladimir Putin's government.
        Lineker said he had passed on his fee for hosting the event to the British Red Cross.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
          This article in the Jewish Chronicle is a particularly unpleasant piece of whataboutery Somehow what Lineker was criticising as inhumane- locking up children in cages- is forgotten compared to retweeting a critic of israel, or sharing Btselem footage.

          They really are scumbags. Happy Hannukah to all.
          The scare quotes in this sentence
          “human rights” groups like B’Tselem.
          are particularly unpleasant too.

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            #6
            Forward Sloper!

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              #7
              Natasha Roth who write for the often excellent +972 magazine has just posted on Twitter

              "The Israeli army says that dozens of masked settlers have gone into a village in the northern West Bank and started throwing stones at Palestinians. Obviously, none of those settlers are going to be stuffed into a cage like the IDF does with Palestinians"

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                #8
                Stuffing people into cages and parading them around town was a favourite tactic of Daesh. This was then followed by using them as a human shield or burning them alive.

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                  #9
                  An article by Hagai El-Ad, the Executive Director of "human rights group" BT'selem


                  ... if Israel continues to cement its grasp all over the West Bank, why does Europe take seriously the occasional Israeli lip service to the “peace process?” And as Israel’s policy of forcibly displacing Palestinians from parts of the occupied territories is indeed a war crime, what is the EU’s effective counteraction? And for how much longer will the lie of “Israeli democracy,” alongside a 21st-century version of institutionalized oppression and dispossession, be accepted at Europe’s doorstep?

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                    #10
                    A response in the Jewish Chronicle


                    We can write-off the treatment of these children, and argue, as Daniel Sugarman does in the JC, that B’Tselem’s videos are part of “an orchestrated process”, presumably to impugn the IDF’s good name. If that makes us feel better, it is because it allows us to ignore the fundamental moral questions raised by 50 years of Israeli military control over Palestinian civilian life.

                    As B’Tselem themselves say, “this incident is not unusual”. Spend a few minutes on their extensive video archive, and you are offered an unflinching eye into the occupation.
                    These videos do not make for pleasant viewing, and if choosing, I’d rather spend my time YouTube-ing compilations of Lineker’s best goals for Spurs than arrests of children in occupied Hebron. But that is exactly why we have to watch them.They should shock, because their contents are genuinely shocking. If they damage Israel, it is because the continued occupation of the West Bank damages Israel.
                    This is written by someone who lives in Israel who are in my experience are far less likely to adopt the extreme postions of the Likudites around Stephen Pollard and his cluster of minimes at the Jewish Chronicle.

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